English is a never-ending language: I, myself just like others in the world feel the same way about the English language. The English language is very complex since it contains a numerous amount of pieces to connect for yourself to be successful with the language. There are lots of terms in our language that focus a lot on the Greek language. But the three terms we will be focusing on are quite significant in the English world. They are used in our everyday life that includes your thought process. Some of us may know what it is, while the rest obviously don’t. According to Aristotle, these rhetorical elements are: “ethos, pathos, and logos,” while they may sound confusing, they are actually quite easy to understand since we all use it in our
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During his time in prison, the guards were always on his case, he clarifies that: “they monitored what I wrote to add to the files which every state and federal prison keeps on the conversion of Negro inmates by the teachings of Mr. Elijah Muhammad”(5). This quote is important because is uses pathos, and that is in a sense that X is realizing he feels oppressed in prison and that the law enforcement in there is looking down on his fellow people in the penitentiary. According to Aristotle, one of his three kinds of persuasion: “putting the audience into a certain frame of mind”(29). I feel that this can be along the same lines of X being in a thought of his personal belongings thus his letters being looked into. He expresses the way on how he sees the guards looking at his letters as if they are only keeping a close eye on his people instead of any of the other races. Malcolm finds himself as being looked at as the average black man with no way of wanting to learn, or in shorter terms, stereotyped because of the harsh times he had been living in. In fact, he states “the average hustler and criminal was too uneducated to write a letter,” this must mean that people looked at his culture as the average hustler but as himself, he tries to stop the stereotype from leading to
During his time in prison, the guards were always on his case, he clarifies that: “they monitored what I wrote to add to the files which every state and federal prison keeps on the conversion of Negro inmates by the teachings of Mr. Elijah Muhammad”(5). This quote is important because is uses pathos, and that is in a sense that X is realizing he feels oppressed in prison and that the law enforcement in there is looking down on his fellow people in the penitentiary. According to Aristotle, one of his three kinds of persuasion: “putting the audience into a certain frame of mind”(29). I feel that this can be along the same lines of X being in a thought of his personal belongings thus his letters being looked into. He expresses the way on how he sees the guards looking at his letters as if they are only keeping a close eye on his people instead of any of the other races. Malcolm finds himself as being looked at as the average black man with no way of wanting to learn, or in shorter terms, stereotyped because of the harsh times he had been living in. In fact, he states “the average hustler and criminal was too uneducated to write a letter,” this must mean that people looked at his culture as the average hustler but as himself, he tries to stop the stereotype from leading to